Salmon Creek Farm: Eco-Minded Neighborhood Among the many Redwoods on the Mendocino Coast

Salmon Creek Farm (@salmon_creek_farm) has made a number of quiet appearances on my Instagram feed recently. Concerning the seventh time, when a good friend DMed certainly one of its rustic cabin kitchens, I clicked by to their web site and didn’t resurface for a number of hours. (I’m removed from the one one: Maggie Gyllenhaal is only one of its many celeb followers.)

Surrounded by towering redwoods, orchards, and natural vegetable and flower gardens, this place on the Mendocino Coast is residence to Salmon Creek Farm Arts, a preservationist “land-based” nonprofit that gives area for artists to decelerate and create. The lodgings: “seven self-sufficient, modest, homespun visitor cabins reached by foot trails throughout 33 acres of south-facing coastal redwoods.”

The group’s roots return a long time, to a commune referred to as Salmon Creek Farm (SCF) began in 1971 by “a gaggle of younger individuals rejecting mainstream tradition and on the lookout for one thing else,” the location stories. (You possibly can take a look by the archives, and pictures from these early years, on the homepage.) The commune stopped being lively within the Eighties, although, the New York Instances stories, some authentic members nonetheless lived there as lately as a couple of years again, when the LA-based artist Fritz Haeg purchased the place. Now reinvigorated, the nonprofit’s first season of artist stays will likely be in 2024 (apply for a spot right here); in the meantime, the cabins can be found as leases to “assist subsidize pressing restore, building, and infrastructure tasks ($100k for brand new roofs on all cabins! $40k for brand new water therapy system & storage tanks! $50k for Rainbow cabin renovation!).”

Along with the country, handmade, and quintessentially Californian cabins, there’s additionally this to admire: Salmon Creek Farm is fully vegetarian, works to domesticate the redwood ecosystem round it that was as soon as chopped down, and endeavors to function as a zero-waste, package-free, compost-driven neighborhood.

Be a part of us for a take a look at a few of the areas—and simply strive to not be entranced.

Pictures through Salmon Creek Farm.

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